Opinion | Kelly Hills: The coronavirus Diamond Prince quarantine was doomed. But so are most quarantines. - NBCNewsTHINK
, Hong Kong enacted quarantine protocols first designed to handle plague in the 1890s. In one well-known incident, when police officers arrived at an apartment complex to order everyone inside to remain quarantined for 10 days, they found nearly half of the 264 apartments empty: People had read the news, heard what was coming and left rather than be contained.
In the process, quarantines can cost governments huge sums and possibly help the spread of disease by pushing panicking citizens out of their daily routine, homes or even cities. So while history tells us quarantines have been around for over 600 years, history also tells us they’ve never been particularly effective, either because of an incorrect theory of how disease works, an incorrect understanding of human behavior, or because every way station and city seemed to have its own rules for when to quarantine a person or cargo. It’s kind of like we are seeing now with the Diamond Princess passengers.
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